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ViScene: A Collaborative Authoring Tool for Scene Descriptions in Videos
Rosiana Natalie1, Ebrima Jarjue2, Hernisa Kacorri2
1Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Summary
ViScene, a web-based tool, empowers non-experts to create high-quality audio descriptions for videos. Expert feedback significantly improves description quality, enhancing accessibility for visually impaired individuals.
Area of Science:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Accessibility Research
- Digital Media
Background:
- Online videos lack audio descriptions, limiting accessibility for people with visual impairments.
- A shortage of expert describers hinders the creation of high-quality audio descriptions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present ViScene, a web-based authoring tool designed to enable sighted non-experts to generate audio descriptions.
- To evaluate the usability of ViScene and the quality of descriptions produced with and without expert feedback.
Main Methods:
- A mixed-design study involving 6 participants.
- Utilizing ViScene with two feedback mechanisms: succinct visualizations and expert comments.
- Comparing description quality generated by non-experts with and without feedback.
Main Results:
- Sighted non-experts can produce higher-quality audio descriptions when provided with expert feedback comments.
- The ViScene tool demonstrates usability for creating audio descriptions.
- Preliminary findings suggest that people with visual impairments can contribute valuable feedback.
Conclusions:
- ViScene effectively leverages non-expert contributors for audio description generation.
- Expert feedback is crucial for enhancing the quality of non-expert-generated descriptions.
- Involving visually impaired individuals in the feedback loop is a promising direction for improving accessibility tools.
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